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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46456	A true relation of the commissions and warrants for the condemnation and burning of Bartholomew Legatt and Thomas Withman the one in West-Smithfield, London, the other at Lichfield, in the year, 1611. Signed with K. James his own hand. In which is laid open their most blasphemous heresies and false opinions, being part of them the very same which our ranters in these times profess to be their new lights. Whereunto are added, the pardons of Theophilus Higgons, and Sr Eustace Hart Knight. Published by authority.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I).	1651 (1651)	Wing J146; ESTC R216993	9,156	21

Father as also before our Commissioners for causes Ecclesiastical within our Realm of England maintained his said most perillous and dangerous Opinions as appeareth by many his Confessions as also by a Book written and subscribed by him and given to us For the which his Damnable and Heretical Opinions he is by Divine sentence declared by the said Reverend Father the Bishop of Coventrey and Lichfield with the advice and consent of Learned Divines and other Learned in the Laws assisting him in Judgement justly adjudged pronounced and declared to be an obstinate and incorrigible Heretick and is left by them under the Sentence of the great Excommunication and therefore as a corrupt member to be cut off from the rest of the flock of Christ lest he should infect others professing the true Christian Faith and is to be by Our secular Power and Authority as an Heretick punished As by the Significavit of the said Reverend Father in God the Bishop of Coventrey and Lichfield bearing Date at Lichfield the fourtenth day of December in the ninth year of our Reign and remaining in our Court of Chancery more at large appeareth And although the said Edward Wightman hath since the said Sentence pronounced against him been often very charitably moved and exhorted as well by the said Bishop as by many other Godly Grave and Learned Divines to disswade revoke and remove him from the said blasphemous Heretical and Anabaptistical Opinions Yet he arrogantly and wilfully persisteth and continueth in the same We therefore according to Our Regal Function and Office minding the execution of Justice in this behalf and to give example to others lest they should attempt the like hereafter have determined by the assent of Our Councel to will and require and do hereby authorize and require you Our said Chancellor immediatly upon the receipt hereof to Award and make out under Our great Seal of England Our Writ of Execution according to the tenor in these presents ensuing And these presents shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for the same REx Vic' Civitatis nostrae Lich. salutem Cum Reverendus in Christo Pater Richardus providentia Divina Coventr ' Lich ' Episcopus nobis significaverit quod ipse contra adversus quendam Edwardum Wightman Parochiae de Burton super Trent Coventr ' Lich ' Dioces de super nephandis heresibus Ebionis Cerinthi Valentiniani Arrii Macedonii Simonis Magi Manetis Manechiorum Photini Anabaptistarum aliorumque heresiarcharum insuper de aliis execrandis opinionibus instinctu Satana excogitatis antehac inauditis juxta Canonum Ecclesiasticorum legumque consuetudinum hujus Regni nostri Angl ' exigentiam judicialit ' procedens praedictus Edwardus Wightman coram praefato Reverendo Patre ac aliis Theologis jurisperitis sibi in judicio assistentibus comparens praedicta nephanda crimina haereses ac alia detestanda blasphemia Errores contumaciter ex quadam pertinacia scienter maliciose animoque obdurato publicavit defendebat disseminabat per sententiam definitivam ejusdem Reverendi Patris cum consensu Theologorum jurisperitorum praedictorum juste Legitime Canonice contra eundem Edwardum Wightman in ea parte latam heretic ' adjudicat ' pronunciat ' existit ideo tanquam ovem morbidam è grege Domini ne subditos nostros sua contagione inficiet ejiciendum eliminandum fore decreverit Cum igitur Sancta Mater Ecclesia non habeat quod ulterius in hac parte facere exequi debeat idem Reverendus Pater eundem Edwardum Wightman ut blasphemum damnatum Haereticum brachio nostro seculari reliquit condigna animadversione plectend ' prout per Literas Patentes praefati Reverendi Patris Episcopi Coventr ' Lich ' in hac parte superinde confect ' nobis in Cancellar ' nostram certificat ' est Nos igitur ut zelator justiciae fidei Catholicae defensor Volentesque Ecclesiam Sanctam ac jura libertates ejusdem fidem Catholicam manutenere defendere ac hujusmodi Haereses Errores ubique quantum in nobis est eradicare extirpare ac Haereticos sic convictos animadversione condigna puniri attendentesque hujusmodi Haereticum in forma praedicta convictum damnatum juxta leges consuetudinem Regui nostri Angliae in hac parte consuet ' ignis incendio comburi debere Tibi praecipimus quod dict Edwardum Wightman in custodia tua existent ' in aliquo loco publico aperto infra Civitatem pradict ' ex causa pramissa coram populo publice igni committi ipsum Edwardum Wightman in codem igne realiter comburi fac ' in hujusmodi criminis detestationem aliorumque Christianorum exemplum manifestum ne in simile crimen labantur Et hoc sub periculo incumbenti nullatenus omittas Teste c. Henry Hibaite This containeth a Warrant to be granted by Your Majesty unto the Lord Chancellour of England for the Awarding of a Writ under the Great Seal of England to the Sheriff of the City of Lichfield for the burning of Edward Wightman who is convicted of divers horrible Heresies before the Bishop of Coventrey and Lichfield and by his Sentence left to the secular Power as is by the said Bishop certified to Your Majesty into Your Higness Court of Chancery And is done by force of Your Majesties Commandment to me given under Your Highness Sign Manuel Henry Hibaite THe King to the Sheriff of Our City of Lichfield Greeting Whereas the Reverend Father in Christ Richard by Divine Providence of Coventrey and Lichfield Bishop hath signified unto us that he judicially proceeding according to the exigence of the Ecclesiastical Canons and of the Laws and Customes of this Our Kingdome of England against one Edward Wightman of the Parish of Burton upon Trent in the Diocess of Coventrey and Lichfield of and upon the wicked Heresies of Ebion Cerinthus Valentinian Arrius Macedonius Simon Magus of Manes Manichees Photinus and of the Anabaptists and other Arch-Hereticks and moreover of other cursed Opinions belched by the instinct of Satan excogitated and heretofore unheard of the aforesaid Edward Wightman appearing before the aforesaid Reverend Father and other Divines and Learned in the Law assisting him in Judgement the aforesaid wicked Crimes Heresies and other detestable Blasphemies and Errours stubbornly and partinaciously knowingly maliciously and with an hardened heart published defended and dispersed by definitive Sentence of the said Reverend Father with the consent of Divines Learned in the Law aforesaid Justly Lawfully and Canonically against the said Edward Wightman in that part brought stands Adjudged and Pronounced an Heretick and therefore as a diseased Sheep out of the Flock of the Lord lest Our Subjects he do infect by his contagion he hath decreed to be cast out and cut off Whereas therefore the holy Mother Church hath not further in this part what it ought more to do and